offtopic
a kind of paradigm shift away from short term profit maximization
towards long term goals that benefit humanity as a whole? charles
eisenstein suggests in his recent book that you will only see something
like this after implementing a different kind of monetary system that
will reinforce different incentives. nice read for a somewhat longer
flight plus it does not cost anything.
http://sacred-economics.com/
/offtopic
On 11/09/2012 08:13 PM, Piaget Modeler wrote:
That's called "Working within the current paradigm."
For AGI there must be a paradigm shift.
~PM
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> Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 10:12:13 +0800
> Subject: [agi] Re: Interesting interview with Nick Cassimatis about
his new AGI startup, and the limitations of modern academia...
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
>
> This quote from the interview nicely summarizes why academia sucks as
> a venue for making AGI progress...
>
> ***
> Since our goal is to actually identify mechanisms that are powerful
> enough to achieve human-level intelligence, the best way we have of
> proving that our theory is correct is to actually implement it and
> show it actually understands language at a human level. It’s actually
> surprisingly difficult to get research like this published and
> supported within normal academic communities because they are more
> interested with smaller, incremental results that can be precisely
> quantified. It is very difficult to get academic papers about complex
> systems published in the quantities you need to thrive in academia.
>
> ... one of the problems with academia today is that one’s career
> progress is disproportionately linked to bringing in money (almost
> always government money). When one asks oneself how to best ensure
> getting a grant, the answer is invariably, “Keep doing more of
> whatever got money before.”
> ***
>
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
http://www.forbes.com/sites/markchangizi/2012/11/09/for-siris-new-competitor-skyphrase-academia-isnt-big-enough-for-ai/
> >
> > --
> > Ben Goertzel, PhD
> > http://goertzel.org
> >
> > "My humanity is a constant self-overcoming" -- Friedrich Nietzsche
>
>
>
> --
> Ben Goertzel, PhD
> http://goertzel.org
>
> "My humanity is a constant self-overcoming" -- Friedrich Nietzsche
>
>
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